What, were you expecting a mcmansion? Punk rocker turned Portlandia star Carrie Brownstein shows off her Portland bungalow, which is as endearingly twee as her on-screen persona

Carrie Brownstein

Carrie Brownstein

“I took all my Ted Cruz posters down before you came over,” declares Carrie Brownstein, leaning against the arched doorframe of her Portland dining room.

Brownstein’s delivery is thoroughly deadpan, but anyone even mildly fa- miliar with the 39-year-old would know the claim couldn’t be dripping with more sarcasm. After all, along with co-star Fred Armisen, Brownstein—founding member of riot grrrl cult band Sleater-Kinney and, more recently, Wild Flag—has made a second career out of portraying a constituent of the kale-eating, craft-beer-drinking, lumberjack- shirt-wearing, jewelry-making crowd on Portlandia.